Word is on Battle.Net that StarCraft 2: Heard of the Swarm is coming on March 12th, 2013. The news comes ahead of any official announcement from Blizzard, who is expected to make an official announcement as soon as today or tomorrow.

Heart of the Swarm, the long-awaited expansion pack, was supposed to be targeted for release late this year; but after beta testing, word was that the game would not make it out this year and instead would arrive next year at some point. Activision had previously announced that the expansion pack would arrive sometime in the first half of 2013, with more specific details to follow.

Battle.Net will be offering a Deluxe Digital Edition of the expansion pack that will include a number of bonus items able to be used in StarCraft 2, World of Warcraft, and Diablo 3, depending on the item.

Electronic Arts is pretty happy with the sales of NHL 12. According to EA, NHL has apparently broken the record for first week sales globally. The game sold 451,000 copies at retail during the first week of release, which equals a 19 percent jump over last year.

It also seems that this year’s edition of the game has seen a 17 percent increase in online games during the first week over last year. NHL 12 had served up over 6.9 million online games during the first week of release.

While this news might not be stellar numbers when you compare to other recent high profile titles that have been released recently, but for the NHL franchise these numbers are big and are a sign that the franchise is growing and adding new players which is good news for EA.

A California phisher was jailed for 12 years by a Californian court for his role in an international scam that cheated more than 38,000 people.

Tien Truong Nguyen, 34, worked with Romanian scammers to help drive people to the sites through email phishing.The court was told that Nguyen sold the data containing the identities stolen from the fake sites to Ryan Price and Stefani Ruland. These two men then setup lines of credit at GE Capital kiosks at Walmart in Northern California.

Victims ended up paying between $1,000 and $2,000. These lines of credit were used to purchase goods at the store and resell the purchases. Nguyen, Price and Ruland got $200,000 in goods from Walmart.

Nguyen was arrested by police in 2007. In his house they found web templates to build fake versions of sites like eBay, Paypal and banks such as Washington’s Heritage Bank.

He had bank and credit card numbers from 38,500 victims, a Remington 870 Magnum Express shotgun with a supply of ammo. Normally it is the right of everyone American citizens to carry a gun, but Nguyen wasn’t allowed to have a firearm due to previous convictions from three felonies that included writing fraudulent checks.

He was charged with conspiracy, aggravated identity theft, possession of a firearm and access-device fraud. During sentencing, lawyers for Nguyen attempted to argue that he had cleaned up his life and stopped using meth which would have helped.

The named roster files for both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of NCAA Football 12 are already out. As most know, the NCAA Football games do not come with actual player names due to college football rules governed by the NCAA.

Still, fans will not be denied; and they have once again manually entered over 6,000 names and have created custom rosters for the game. This means that once again this year you will be able to get the names of the players on your favorite college football team.

You can get the 360 roster files by looking for the tag PatrickMorty, or gamingtailgate for the PS3 version. We have to give a tip of the hat to those who got this done so quickly, as this is a massive undertaking and is something that we and most everyone else will enjoy.